Module-specific layouts in Zend Framework

SwitchLayout.php

<?php
class Genoa_Controller_Plugin_SwitchLayout extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
    public function dispatchLoopStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {
        $module = $request->getModuleName();
        $layoutName = $module;
        $layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH . "/modules/$module/views/layouts";
        Zend_Layout::startMvc();
        $layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();
        $layout->setLayout($layoutName);
        $layout->setLayoutPath($layoutPath);
    }
}

Sets the default layout based on what module is about to be dispatched. Assumes that you will have a layout named the same as your module, but easy to change that to just be "layout" or similar.

Maybe try to add layoutPath and layoutName into configuration, it will be better - for example in that case 3 modules can share one layout.

Yeah definitely. In this case, I didn't want them to share a layout. I could do one big layout folder though in case they needed to share one but also have separate ones